You know those sci-fi teleporters like in Star Trek where you disappear from one location then instantaneously reappear in another location? Do you trust that they are safe to use?

To fully understand my question, you need to understand the safety concerns regarding teleporters as explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI

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I wouldn’t, because the person that reappears aint me, its a fucking clone. Teleporters are murder machines. Star Trek is a silent massacre!

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    351 year ago

    Yes. I get to die and pass all my responsibilities to my quantum clone. Sign me the fuck up.

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      1 year ago

      Instant cloning opens up many interesting possibilities:

      • Dying of old age while having some unpaid loans on your account? Don’t worry, per your loan contract you signed, your creditor can “revive” you using the cloning tech so you can continue working and paying your debt.
      • Do you have an illness that’s very expensive to treat? Just die and pass everything to your clone.
      • There might be some black market cloners so you can create an illegal clone to do unpleasant stuff (e.g. working, cleaning house, etc) while you’re relaxing at home. Once the illegal clone finished their task, they can just die and disintegrate wherever. The disposable clone don’t have to know that they are a disposable clone or they’ll revolt and reports you for human right violation. You can wake up in the morning, go to work, then went home only to find your original self chilling in the couch while your body starts disintegrating. “oh shit, I’m the clone…”
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      111 year ago

      And the clone gets a great excuse to get out of things. “That wasn’t me, that was my clone”

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        21 year ago

        Well I think if teleporters actually do get invented one day, the law would make the clone legally the same person as the original